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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do D, Neeka and the narrator get off the bus?
(a) Near a dark city park.
(b) At the mall.
(c) At a friend's house where there is a party.
(d) At D's cousin's house.

2. What does Neeka fear?
(a) Her mother finding out.
(b) Being beaten or raped.
(c) Being arrested.
(d) Nothing.

3. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Sing in public.
(b) Walk too fast.
(c) Attend church in peace.
(d) Look at a cop in the eyes.

4. To what point does the narration move forward in Chapter 10?
(a) Two years later.
(b) Three years later.
(c) November.
(d) The next May.

5. What is the news about Tash?
(a) He is being moved to another prison.
(b) He is dying.
(c) He has been given another year for bad behavior.
(d) He is getting out of jail.

6. What does D vow after hearing the counselor?
(a) To show the counselfor that she was tough.
(b) To find her birth mother who would love her.
(c) To find her birth father who would love her.
(d) To be the perfect child.

7. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?
(a) Dancing with a very handsome young man.
(b) Standing on the stage in the amphitheater.
(c) Singing for the party guests.
(d) Snorting cocaine.

8. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.
(b) To go through the metal detector.
(c) He doesn't wear glasses.
(d) They are fogging up because he is crying.

9. What does Neeka's group share?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Anger towards Tash for getting in there.
(c) A large, picnic-style lunch.
(d) The prison food.

10. What does Sly convince Tash to do?
(a) Go to an illegal gambling joint.
(b) Borrow some money and bet on some horses.
(c) Beat up a cop.
(d) Take Sly and a friend to Randall's home.

11. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(b) They are hunted.
(c) They should leave the United States.
(d) They should hunt just as they are hunted.

12. About what does Neeka complain?
(a) The way her mother pays more attention to her brothers.
(b) Her noisy family.
(c) Her brother doing something to get in prison.
(d) Her mother making her come with them.

13. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(b) If D can come over for dinner.
(c) If Tash was home yet.
(d) If they would like to roam with her.

14. When does Tash expect to be out?
(a) In a week.
(b) The end of summer.
(c) Within 2 years.
(d) He has no expectations.

15. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.
(b) To interview at a college.
(c) To visit Tash in prison.
(d) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Flo?

2. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?

3. Where do the girls make snow angels?

4. Upon what does the narrator remark concerning the beautiful day?

5. What does D learn that the court system has done?

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